Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. This will allow the developers to address issues in connecting their apps to the Epic EMR. Previously, Epic wouldn’t let mobile app developers connect to its EMR until a customer requested permission on their behalf.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Interoperability is a public good and the industry has made progress over the last 15 years only because of the federal certification program and related standards, specifically the combination of USCDI content transported in FHIR format. This allows for the healthcare domain to innovate faster and responsibly.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2024

For example, GitHub Copilot is helping Greenway developers quickly refactor legacy code. CCDAs are cumbersome to work with, but I am excited about where the industry is going with the FHIR expansion that is coming. “We started with a pilot group of engineers, and it was incredibly successful.

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Interoperability FHIR Healthcare IT Health Information 120

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

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HIPAA EMR FHIR EHR 126

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Epic) to real-time patient journey optimization systems that are EMR-agnostic and fueled by far more comprehensive data than what sits in EMRs today. The CMS proposed ruling requires impacted payers to build and maintain a FHIR API, starting January 1st, 2026, in effort to improve the cumbersome and costly prior authorization process.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare. Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

As more solutions adhere to standards like the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources ( FHIR ) and enable connections to the networks like Carequality, data will flow more effectively and efficiently through the healthcare continuum. Drilling down further, different users may benefit from different configurations of the EHR.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 23, 2018

Then we will handle the nuances of getting the data out and putting the data back into the EMR. Examples of what we allow for writing data to the EHR would be discrete observations, documents, and notes. The FHIR standard is even further entrenched now that Apple is using it to populate Health Records.

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FHIR EHR Digital Health EMR 44

HIStalk Interviews

APRIL 24, 2019

We partnered with companies like Salesforce, for example, in taking this to the masses, focusing on smaller businesses at first and scaling it from there. Systems can talk to each other in many ways — FHIR, APIs, app stores, and traditional vendor interfaces. We built and deployed a fully-functioning, working prototype.

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EHR Interoperability FHIR EMR 69

American Well

APRIL 13, 2020

For example, if you wanted to engage with a telehealth visit, you could do so with the same set of credentials you use to see your past clinic notes and lab results, or to pay your bill. For example, we leverage a lot of FHIR APIs to pull information from Cerner and communicate that with DFD.

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Patient Experience Interoperability Telehealth Connected Care 62

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

I think we all know the answer to that and FHIR and all these other standards won’t get us there either. He gave the example of going to the ER and the ER doctor having access to your full records. Can Oracle really create a full longitudinal record of all patients? First was patients.

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EHR Life Science Public Health FHIR 116

HIStalk Interviews

AUGUST 8, 2018

Health insurance examples would be prior authorization, medical management, risk adjustment, and quality. The reality of the situation is that a large integrated health system has, on average, 17 different EMR systems. We are fully compliant to SAMHSA, as an example, which is a federal regulation to redact substance abuse information.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 21, 2019

A group of health and technology organizations develops open source cancer data standards and specifications that can be incorporated into EHRs via FHIR. I’m thinking of a time-based layout, for example [for EHR information]. EMR vendor ). A private equity firm acquires EHR/PM vendor Nextech for $500 million.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We can also expect to see a surge in connected devices, like heart monitors, integrated directly with EMRs, facilitating a flow of data that creates a fuller patient picture. Enhanced compliance with regulations like HIPAA and FHIR standards will prioritize the secure exchange and storage of healthcare data.

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Interoperability Health IT Pharmaceuticals Digital Health 65

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The introduction of standards like SMART on FHIR and FHIR has significantly improved data interoperability, allowing for easier extraction of data and better integration with external applications, especially in modern EHRs that support these standards.

EHR 116

EHR Interoperability FHIR Patient Experience 116

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

New regulations could be implemented to encourage the adoption of standardized data formats and APIs, making it easier for various healthcare IT systems (including EMRs and practice management systems) to communicate and share patient data securely.

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Healthcare IT Interoperability HIPAA EMR 136

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For example, eHealth Exchange participants are taking advantage of its single API to join Carequality and TEFCA with no additional subscription fees or paperwork to sign. We are fully invested in using Networked Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) for connecting with payers. The exact process varies from QHIN to QHIN.

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eHealth FHIR Interoperability HIE 83

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The new mandates will standardize ePA using APIs based on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard and require EHRs to support prescription ePA and use the new National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) SCRIPT standard as part of their certification criteria.

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EHR Interoperability FHIR Health Information 81